These claims [about me of inappropriate conduct with women] are all fabricated. They're pure fiction and they're outright lies. These events never, ever happened and the people said them meekly fully understand.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Great actions speak great minds.
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary. ' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.