I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.