The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
There is more here than meets the eye.
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly. . . and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
Tod laughed. He was always able to find the humour in even the creepiest situations. I'd thought that it was an undead thing, until I became a member of the undead. Then I realized it was a Tod-thing.
It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.
War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?