When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.

No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

I love you so much I could burst into flames.

Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Summer had come to sit on New York's face.