Plucking a flower and giving it to someone is not an act of kindness

That’s the thing with reality, he said, you can’t repeat it to order, you can’t correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience