It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.