The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

Indulgences should never be hesitant.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.