The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

May you find inner strength to overcome obstacles in life.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.