Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.

Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

I am very, very tuned into people. If something's wrong, I can sense it from the moment they walk in the studio.