We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Fonny and I just sat there. . . while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy. . . Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.