I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

Anger is a ghost.Human is the host.

Cool is not an attitude - It's a state of mind

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.