Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Oh, I never look under the hood.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.
One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.
I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.