Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realis

I don't know who made the laws

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.