Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.
When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.