Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.