Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.

We are accountable to [God] for the way we use our time.

Don't think about the things that made you to think and think and think...

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

Aight baby show me the exact spot, meet me at Hoyt & Schemethorn at 3 on the dot

If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both.

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break