. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.