No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Problems are not roadblocks, but exercise tools.

I've never been to the gym. I do nothing.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.