I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.