any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

I decline to accept the end of man.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.