If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.

I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.

As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.

Republican voters are fed up with Democrats and Democrat policy.

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.