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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."

"Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes."

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

"A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!""

"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'."

"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."

"The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams."

"Leave the atom alone."

"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."

"I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job."

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

"Gardens are a form of autobiography."

"Faith is reason grown courageous."

"Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

"If you have to forecast, forecast often."