War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Jesus Christ is God's everything for man's total need.

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!