If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

Damn sure better win. That's all I can say.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.