It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

The power of a positively programmed subconscious mind is undoubtedly immeasurable.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I made a hook.'

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.