... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep

I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.