If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.

You really need to be able to eat the burger like you're loving it. I don't want somebody that's going to go out there and say, "Well, I don't eat burgers."

This is America. You're allowed to have your views.

Faith goes hand in hand with the belief in a supreme purpose that includes everybody, a purpose that is for mankind’s ultimate peace, harmony and happiness.

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.