The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters

I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

Wanting ... is something 'having' cannot cure.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.