I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

We'll show the fire how to burn.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

There are a lot of things that come easy, but they're not necessarily worth it. Anything worth having, you work hard for. That's how I feel I am.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.