A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

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.

Beauty is not in a woman’s face but in her soul.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

I'm never really nervous because I've done the maximum; now it's up to the audience to do its job.

When in doubt, just take the next small step

Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.