Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Old age is Satan’s last chance to blow us off course.

It would be hard to degrade yourself, if you don't have to rely on others to define your worth.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.