“If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.”

Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

A girl’s best friend is her mutter.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.

The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.

There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

It might feel like sparks to you but to me it’s fireworks.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.

I can’t choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

I feel you gotta be nervous. If you’re nervous, it’s just ’cause you want to do well, it’s not ’cause you’re scared.

I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.

As an actor, I don’t feel like it’s necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn’t needed.

I feel like I’m married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it’s serious.