"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."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"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."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like."

"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."

"It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing."

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

"Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat."

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."