A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Sweets to the sweet.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

The rest, is silence.

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.