 The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. |
| Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. |
| The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow. |
| Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. |
| The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. |
| We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. |
| In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? |
| Justice is a terrible but necessary thing. |
| Groan and forget it. |
| If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. |
| A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. |
