"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ?- and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

"The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight."

"A filthy mouth will not utter decent language."

"You cannot conceive the many without the one."