People never believe you.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

O braggart vile and damned furious wight!