If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.