"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 artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

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

"And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after."

"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

"If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down."

"That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it."

"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."