My pen shall heal, not hurt.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.

Wealth is not often a byproduct of hard work or superior intelligence, but often wealth is a byproduct of a purpose oriented abundant mentality.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.