Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Not if you like lies so much you want to live one

Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

If I can take it, I can make it.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Say it with pride we are Hindus

I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around.