A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

To make it a perfect season, let us feel joy and love everyone without a reason.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.