The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
Freedom costs you a great deal.
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?