Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.