There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

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.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

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

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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

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

I don't do drugs, I am drugs