Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Despair is criminal.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

I watch TV all the time. Everything.