She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

When a Dragon, an Elf, and a Human walk into a bar, the Human is always going to be the punch line.

The Key to Abundance is Acceptance. The more you expect the less you accept.

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.