I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

No adultery is bloodless.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success.

Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?

Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.

Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo and his friends joined the Communists mostly for these reasons.

Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.