All history is modern history.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Public Speaking is very easy.

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.