Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

How could I suddenly go from a person who had struggled to dissect an already dead mouse, to someone who was willing to murder a human being? There was no logic to it!

You can’t expect to be who God wanted you to be if you don’t improve on upon your talents, abilities, and actions to the peak of the potentials you carry.

I'm an art major. You're a political science major. YOU go lay down the law.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!