An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole