I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

No! I don't feel any pressure right now!

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.