... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

I have lost confidence in myself.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled.