"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."

"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."

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity."

"Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them."

"I love the women's movement...especially when I'm walking behind it."

"The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves."

"Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!'"

"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."