A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

I never really did a western western.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.