The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?