Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

Did you know that each day that dawns, you are in "TODAY?" Stay in "Today" and you will never have to worry about tomorrow. God will take care of tomorrow.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

There's nothing worse than watching an old wrinkly guy going, 'Hey, baby.' You're like, 'Dude, that's lame.' It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.