Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!