It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

A good liar must have a good memory.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.