All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Clocks slay time time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

People need trouble a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude ...

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 sinc ...

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.

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.