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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

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