It doesn't matter where you come from. It's what you do when you get here.

I don't want one play to define me as a player.

I took everything to a big matter.

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

The fact that you've got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.