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I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.
Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.
The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.
People of difference are always held to different standards.
To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
He laughed. A strained, ha, ha, ha, I may die of this laugh.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.
Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.
The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.
Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
Once elected, the President 'forgets' all about his promises.