Writing is my vacation from living.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

I will be an artist or nothing!

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.