stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The implied trust was humbling. He didn't deserve it, but then again, he wouldn't betray it either.

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.