jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

I'm beholding to nobody, I've spent you know, tens and tens of millions of dollars on the campaign.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.