I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year?

The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want.

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

I am very pleased it has all been resolved. I wanted to stay at the club and they wanted me too, there was never a problem. There were only a few small matters to sort out.

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.