“There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.”

If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

I’m an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

If people know how it’s done, all the magic goes.

Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

Life is a play that does not allow testing.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

I am an emotional cuss.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.

My library is an archive of longings.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.