The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...

Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

I Feel like I'm one of the Simpsons

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.