The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.

G. Randolf

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Henry James

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

Clifford Irving

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Augustine of Hippo

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate

Christopher Hampton

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Stephen King

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Mary Gordon

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Kenneth Olsen

The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Morality is largely a matter of geography.

Elbert Hubbard

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

Matthew McGrory