Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
