Destiny and history are untidy.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.