A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Alchemy. The link between the immemorial magic arts and modern science. Humankind's first systematic effort to unlock the secrets of matter by reproducible experiment.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world not an escape from it.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they were reading my picture books, and now they're telling me how much they enjoy my novels.

With solidarity, you will be more talented and handier, you will be taller and stronger, faster and wiser!

I am proud of myself.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Whats the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters Mine are real.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!

Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.

As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

Getting fired is hard.

I can feel the hurt. Theres something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.