To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

I’d like to be the moon in your sky.

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

You can take on the world in a good suit.

Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.