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Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.
The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.
I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?
Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.
Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.
Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.
I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.
I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.
The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.
I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.
I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.