I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.

Now I knew that if that's how the devil looks, I wanted to go straight to hell.

I am with you because I want to be, not because I need you. It's my will be with you. And that makes it much stronger, because God knows I'm as stubborn as they come.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour.

Positive thinking is great, if you'll take action.

Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle.

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.