We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.

Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.