You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

I love black people, but I hate niggers.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.