You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.