Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

I don't like to play the victim.

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

The less of the World, the freer you live.