don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.