We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

A person preaches well that lives well.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.