The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Some of the stuff I get the scripts for, I read it and I'm like, "Wow." We're doing some crazy stuff on this show [Legends of Tommorow]. it's going to be amazing.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

I don't really know [who my favorite vampire is]. I always think, 'Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire,' and someone will say, 'He's not the vampire. He's the interviewer.'

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.