New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas.

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine.

The better you are, the closer they watch.

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

You are what you are.