There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

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.

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.