The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

you have always a choice between being a winner or a loser in your life.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times.

You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.

One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.