Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
What's dead may never die.
The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them,. . . I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.
When I was in Middle of The Night, MGM came and offered me a contract and I said that when I got out of the play, I'd like to try it. I didn't know anything about making movies but I was certainly finding it interesting.