A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

If we go far enough back, any two people on earth have a common ancestor.

When we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: That she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

A little child is immoral, he has no internal inhibitions against pleasures.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.