Only the dead know Brooklyn.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.