I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

A man without fear, is a man I strive to be.

Don't you know a kiss would change the world forever?

Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?" "Boy, I hope not!

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!

The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.