"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

"I am an artist, not a propagandist."

"That's what all we are. Amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."

"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

"I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty, or who finds freedom in it … I found poverty neither attractive nor edifying. It taught me nothing but a distortion of values, an over-rati…"