Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.

The real me isn’t someone you see but someone you know.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.

If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.