Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Peace has its price: your head and heart; less than that is war.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

Stay positive and love your life.

Alec Baldwin is so funny.

I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)