...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.