I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.