Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.

You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

I haven't ever seen 'Lost' I'm sorry.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.