Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.
Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.
Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.