Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

Search. Search.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!