You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

What I must do is all that concerns me,

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know

I've never made a secret of my homosexuality.

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.