The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

A good beginning is of great importance.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

Value equals benefits received for burdens endured.

I hope that I have a body of work by the time that I'm done with all of this that I'm proud of. Certainly the cornerstone will always be Wonder Woman and I love her.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."