When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Mind the gap, Jack

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.