Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.

The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.

When everyone disconnects you...Your Lord connects with you.

Our prayers must be in accordance with the will of God for the simple reason that God knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.

Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.