Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness

The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.

All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.

...the greatest wounds, we hide inside ourselves where they never show.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.