No man is a devil in his own mind.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.