How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it’s not worth it.

Shame is the root of all addictions.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.

For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance.

O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?