There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

Living beings have this in common

Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination, ignite in the brilliance of our minds, and are wrought in the work of our hands" -

Love Is How You Dress

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

I don’t think I’d feel any more violated if he’d stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

Thank God I'm at that point in my career where I don't have to take stuff that I don't really want to do.

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.