Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

No adultery is bloodless.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

To be brave, you have to fight against something that scares you. That's the rule.

Do your thing, without harming anything.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.