We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Your blessings far outnumber your bitterness.

I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.