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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.
If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.
Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.
A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters.
It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be.
I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!
I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.
Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.
... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.