It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

One lives everything down in time.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me.

At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I could have gone out and thrown another 20-25 pitches.