I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.