The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent…

— Tom Robbins

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

— Tennessee Williams

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

— Mina Loy

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience…

— Terence Rattigan

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

— Doris Lessing

Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time,…

— Andre Bazin

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

— Ayn Rand

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines,…

— George R. R. Martin

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright,…

— Beth Henley

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift…

— Mary Hunter Austin

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

— August Strindberg

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a…

— D. H. Lawrence