Symbols Are The Imaginative Signposts

The Announcement That You Are Going To Tell A Good Story (and The Chuckle That Precedes It) Is Always A Dangerous Opening.

He Couldn't See A Belt Without Hitting Below It.

I Have Been Devoured All My Life By An Incurable And Burning Impatience: And To This Day Find All Oratory, Biography, Operas, Films, Plays, Books, And Persons, Too Long.

Truthfulness With Me Is Hardly A Virtue. I Cannot Discriminate Between Truths That And Those That Don't Need To Be Told.

The First Element Of Greatness Is Fundamental Humbleness (this Should Not Be Confused With Servility); The Second Is Freedom From Self; The Third Is Intrepid Courage, Which, Taken In Its Widest Interpretation, Generally Goes With Truth; And The Fourth-the Power Of Love-although I Have Put It Last, Is The Rarest.