An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues

No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

To him who has determined, it only remains to act.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants