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.

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.

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

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.

I've been grateful for what comes along.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.