One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

All evil is good become cancerous.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.