Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.