It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolatebut with more screaming.

No book is written

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.