you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.