Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?