We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

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.

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.