Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.