Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

Prayer, Holy communication with God

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.

On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.