She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.

You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

I am not obsessing.I am just sitting hereperforating this post-itwith a push-pin.

The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.