All my life I have fought corruption.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

When Caesar says, 'do this,' it is perform'd.

You, boy, who owe everything to a name

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

Suicide kills two people.

You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age... and you have your own TV show.

There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

Singing is the lowest form of communication.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.