The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.