You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Groan and forget it.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I’ve been looking for all my life.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool’s paradise when that’s the only paradise he’ll ever have a chance to enter.

They darted like needles through the morning – they wove the bright May morning into a fabric strong enough to support a party.

The source of one’s joy is also often the source of one’s sorrow.

Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn’t mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.