A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.