One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can.

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.