A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

They say I'm old news. Well who the new star? Cause if I'm goin anywhere it's probably too far.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.