You teach people how to treat you by what you accept.

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

Don’t look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, and films.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.