Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

Sometimes sanity just means the ability to recognize the end of the road when you reach it.

Have you ever had a cookie? Then you won't get any here either.

I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.