The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!

Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.