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.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

The happy problem of our time - longer life.

God forgives those who invent what they need.