When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.