Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

We are all worthy of one another.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

To hate is to harm.

Determination is the strength needed to succeed.

When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.