It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

The beauty of love is that it demands to be two sided, otherwise its nothing but another obsession.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

Remember that the only constant in life is change.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.