Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

I find, the fancier the fashion magazine is, the worse the Photoshop. It’s as if they are already so disgusted that a human has to be in the clothes, they can’t stop erasing human features.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

They all have in common that they are bacteria caused by bowel and feces.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.