Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

View other authors as your allies rather than your competition

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

I'm really, really emotional.

I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.

I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted.

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.