You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.