Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

There is always something missing that torments me.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

I'll love you forever, even when I can't.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.