But what I do I do because I like to do.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Evil and good meet with their due reward. Good fortune and ill luck walk side by side. But he who never walks the wrong path, need have no fear when comes the summons in the night.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin

I'm absolutely terrified of heights, so maybe it's something I'd like to do in the future... although even saying it scares me! But I would absolutely love to overcome my fear of heights.

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

I wouldn't change my life for the world at the moment.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.