What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

I want to wake up ev­ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin­gers on my skin and your heart beat­ing mu­sic with mine.

When played together, love is music in life

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.