The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I know what it's like to be left out... I certainly went through a period of time where I got made fun of and people were so mean to me, so I can really relate to that.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.