Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.

I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.