The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.

A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men I will find something in them which will hang him.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.