In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Work is the province of cattle.

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.