Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Thinking evil is making evil.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.