Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Many have balls but only a few have heart.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.