It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

No matter what your circumstance, if you provide kids with creative ammunition, they will blast holes into an oppressive reality, and conceive limitless worlds.

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

When darkness falls upon you, turn your face to the sun and your shadows will fall behind you.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

I've always wanted to act.