It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

It is never too late to become what we might have been.