The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

To be too busie gets contempt.

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

I'm very loving and supporting of my actors. I also expect them to show up prepared, happy to be there, and give their all as I do as an actor.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.