To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.