A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

People who move to New York always the same mistake. They can't see the place.

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives."

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.