Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
History is a big word. . . . . . . . . . History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
I think you create your own hipness.
. . . as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. . . . We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.