What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films.... and so on and so on... and some short stories I am going to put... from my darkness.

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

I like mythology - anything historical.

The great rebalancing -- what does recovery mean today?

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.