A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.

Hatred and Blessing cannot coexist in the same heart.

A good intention feeds no one.

Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

On dancing on pointe: Why don't they just get taller girls?

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.