Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.