I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.

And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.