This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.