Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

He that is once borne, once must dy.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.