I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

How little we know of what there is to know.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

To understand is to forgive.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

With hope, we can endure any hardship.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.