"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."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

"All good things are wild, and free."

"Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace."

"If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer."

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."