A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You see, but you do not observe.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.