A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Joblessness gives you life ownership

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

I never went to sleep thinking and dreaming that I wanted to be an actor. It just kind of fell on my lap and I said, "Okay, maybe I can do this? Lets see.".

The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.