I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.

Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.