Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

The end of a life is always vivifying.