The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.