Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

Is there anything whiter than winter snow?

Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles

If I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

No man was ever great by imitation.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.