Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.

Anything that isn't writing is easy

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.