The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each has to believe by himself.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

There's just something about vampires that's sexy...It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.