I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

See anything interesting out there in the woods of King Hall?

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

He had a lot of different smiles, and Jane was getting to know them all.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

I think good actors tend to be really funny.