As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

You can't have genius without patience.

Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him a little bit. I just think maybe they have similar voices.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

We are formed by what we desire

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive.