All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

You do not get to choose who you love.

No matter how high you climb, there will always be a room for you to turn your creativity and productivity up some notches.

Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.

You darling is my semicolon.

It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.

Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

That's my only goal: Stay off crack.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl