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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.
My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.
If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.
I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.
Sometimes you just have to get out there and just help somebody face to face.
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.
It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.