The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.

This arrogant, perfumed young noble, in his rustling silks and polished lamellar armour, knew nothing of the hardships of war.

It was said that if you duped death, if you kept someone alive who should have died, then you might be called to die in their place. Energy was demanded, if not from one source, then from another.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Ive made a career off of Halloween.

Good luck with your asparagus.

However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.