Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Jack had a way of sneaking up on her, like a cold or...a chin hair.

I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.

I want to win. I don't care about the money.

Is she crazy, like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I dunno!

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.