For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Just wear what makes you happy. If you're happy, it's a great outfit.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.

She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.