It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

We make art to feel life. We do science to understand it.

This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

His experience was that Justice was rarely as just as it ought to be. The others agreed.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.

Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.