in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

We waltzed Lisztlessly.

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

Cats talk to whomever they please.