What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins