I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
I've never seen a low point. I like to believe that they don't exist.
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.
Maryland is never going to be the low-cost place to live and work, and we shouldn't try to be because we have a lot of other stuff we bring to the table. And you get what you pay for.
You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.
Expectations shouldn't be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the crowd around him and never grabbed as many women as he suggested. Lower the bar for what you can talk about, and you lower the bar for what is acceptable behavior.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
I never had a family, and now I do. I know I'm a very lucky guy.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
