Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

I've always been a religious person.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf.

I saw an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. The story is just legendary for us Danes, and it was really well done.

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.