There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.