The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, last week I was a murderer, and the week before that I was a child molester, and the week before that I was a lunatic. But now I'm a homosexual."

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.