God is a politician; so is the devil.

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it's natural to be a good person, and kind, but I'm learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days.

I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.