The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I don't give a damn what people think.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.

I would give a century of my life for a single taste of your lips

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody's head.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

More die in flight than in battle.