The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.