There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.

There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

Do right and risk the consequences.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.