In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within

With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.