Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
It was just a matter of survivalーlike getting off the roadーso we could exist form day to day.
Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Cut out those intimate little dinners for two - unless there's someone with you.
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.
O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.