Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

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

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

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.