"The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place."

"If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?"

"At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface."

"Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand."

"Fear cripples faster than any implement of war."

"We all fear what we do not understand."

"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."

"The beggar wears all colors fearing none."

"Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed"

"The two great movers of the human mind are the desire for good, and the fear of evil"

"The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear"

"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize"

"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it."

"I am not the least afraid to die"

"And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep."

"I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare."

"Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk."

"Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned."

"I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror."

"I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art."

"There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?"

"I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings."