The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

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.

God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His.

We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times...and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.