always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

I'm trying to just go with the flow and learn from the people around me.

I do my best to love everybody

What I always say is, "Look good, feel good, play good."

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.