Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

When your out of space, your out of place at the same time.

I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

Pubcon is always one of the first shows I put on my calendar. Content is excellent, social is excellent, networking opportunities are excellent.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.