Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

My time with Ferrari was wonderful. I have found friends and had experiences that I would not want to be without.

The key to happiness is achievable dreams.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.