Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

You're The Grinch, Cole! That's why you don't like it.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.