As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

We are not a creature of the media, so we are not depending on the media publicizing us to make us successful.

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.