Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

What is real is beyond all reach.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Words are not brains, you know.

Greatness is achieved, not only, by doing great things, but also, by making the small things we dogreat.

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.