You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn?

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more than this A kiss to build a dream on.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

And they choose our mates. (Ravyn) So what do they do? Jump here on earth, tap you on the shoulder, and say, ‘Hey, bub, marry her’? (Susan)