-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

As long as one suffers one lives.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

A strong body is a good asset. A strong mind is a very good asset.

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.