If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlock the possibilities within!

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.

You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.