All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.

Im a peaceful man with bad intentions.

Women earn less than men because they are women.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.