Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.

Original sin is a very commercial idea, ” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?

Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.

What I believe to be every Australian's right - a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?