Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish._ The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. _

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

Liberty is worth paying for.

Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words or his readers is sure to skip them.

Villains are fun to play.

I think happiness is love.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

I love my sleep.

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.

The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.

I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.