"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."

"It is difficulties that show what men are."

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning."