There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Every man's memory is his private literature.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.