Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

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.

In the midst of the disappointment, we find faith as an anchor!

Anytime that you look up to the clear sky and see colors in it, you should be suspecting that you are looking at a flow of energy through the sky that is causing a gas to glow.

When business is good it pays to advertise when business is bad you've got to advertise.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.

I think people thought that if [Donald Trump] won, he'd win by one state the way that President [George W.] Bush did.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.