Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.

Happiness thinks only of itself.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning.

It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.

In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.

Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.

Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.

A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

I don't like being vulnerable. I feel uncomfortable in it.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.