Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.