Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

You are going to love me until I die. I’m going to make you love me even if it hurts, and when it hurts, I’m going to make it better, Brooke.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.