You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.