I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

God’s Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.