My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.

My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.