The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him and when he is compelled to exist as it were by his own inner light.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.