Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

I am not for or against anyone or anything

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

If you see a bully, stand up to him.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin War gets deep, some beef is everlastin

You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.