'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance. . . thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. . . if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.
Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near. . . She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was, shivering with the desire to go to her". . . [later, Molly asked the cat] "Why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her. " "If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. . . The price is more than a cat can pay.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.