If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

Taking sides cannot bring peace and balance.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

I had some Barbies, but they were few and far between the mud fights.