Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
Tact is good taste in action.
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.
Government planning always involves compulsion.
Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.