Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Riches make cowards of us.

Character is the best security.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Character comes before scholarship.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

The only thing that limits us is our imagination.

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Local politics matters a lot.