"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible."

"It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity."

"The longest journey is the journey inward."

"No man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner."