If you don't deal with your emotions, one day your emotions will deal with you.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

Dante to Abby: My God you are going to kill me. Again

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Keep hoping. Be patient and diligent. Never give up. Hold on to your faith. God helps us when we show Him that we are willing to help ourselves.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Mark my words, Princess,” Loki said. “One day, you’ll be madly in love with me.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.