The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.