Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

Love me, and tell me so sometimes.

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.