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Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.
Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.
Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.
I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.
A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.
Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.
Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.
I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.