There is a weird power in a spoken word.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

It was a dark story.

Oh, to be the author of prison letters. It's a young girl's dream come true.

I love you not because you are perfect, but because I find you inside myself.

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

We just all need to stick together and unite, be together and support one another.

If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Be black, shine, aim high.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.