For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

That is not good language which all understand not.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.