We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

The spirit of a man is divine.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in.

The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came.

I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.