Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!