“The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.”

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Romance is everything.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

You attract what you need like a lover.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn’t let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Was not In the men’s room, Julie.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don’t claim that one.

One of my strongest gifts is that I’m pretty straightforward.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.