It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.

I subscribe to the thought that it doesn’t matter if it’s right or wrong. What matters is what works.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.