A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
A poem is no place for an idea.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.