No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Always blame conditions, not men

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy

Depart from the deeds of darkness. Return to path of light.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

Even in death she was more beautiful to him than she ever was alive.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.