Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

No one can ever help loving anyone.

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Work alone qualifies us for life.

To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

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A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

I don't like things set in stone.