"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

"Not to have felt pain is not to have been human."

"Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts."

"Life is short; live it up."