By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

I think I'm commercial underground. I'm not commercial in the way that people consider 'pop, ' but I'm not underground in the way that people consider that. either. I am just a cool guy.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.