The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Always blame conditions, not men

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace.

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.