It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the new york times.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The time you wait subtracts the joy the heads the angel you destroy.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. take it easy baby. take it as it comes

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.