"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"

"How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?"

"Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?'"

"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."

"He is most cheated who cheats himself."

"Nothing recedes like success."

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."

"Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies."

"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."

"The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do."