Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most.

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.

My class is not a three ring circus.

I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.

Inspiration is an inner string which must be tuned often in order to play it.

One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I'm not a big-game hunter. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.