I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Golf is a mental disorder.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.

Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?

Let a sweltering heat... love... rose up relentlessly.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.

I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner.

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'