I have always hated the cinema.

Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe.

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

"No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

My daughter and I are so close. She just turned six. I can describe anything she's doing, the least little thing, and I get all excited about it. It's like medicine.

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.