Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.

How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell, Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

I like to breed players that attack people.

No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.