How much easier it is to be poor than rich.

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

I know Verona as I do my own body.

Memories, real and irreplaceable, all of them. The happy ones, the bitter ones, the terrified and the poignant.

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.