Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

The day of individual happiness has passed

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Freedom is from within.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.