It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.",

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.