The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Everyone has a dream, so why not dream big... it just might happen!

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

My biggest regret is that I didn't listen to my intuition as it was yelling at me.

I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.