Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

A liar with a pen is a writer

As we pretend to be brave, we become so.

In the context of photography, there was a luck.But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour.

Meditation is waiting on God.

I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.