Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Please God, be merciful to me!

You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Tyson [Chandler] encouraged me and was like, if that's what you want to wear, wear that.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.