I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

Don't cry after my death . with smiling face send me to heaven.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

I don't have to play football.