Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.
It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.
Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.
I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.
Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.