An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

What are we if we are not disciplined?

But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what you like but in liking what you have to do.