When people say, 'I believe in Jesus', look them straight in the eye and ask, 'Which one?'
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.
Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.