In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

…reality catches up with you eventually.

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

I'm not fighting. I just telling you what's right.