There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Too much study leads to worn out,

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that is one is male and the other female.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.