Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

I'm actually introverted and shy.

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch