"You mind Ralph," she called back to Bubber. "Mind the gnats don't sit on his eyelids."

"It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night."

"Nothing had really changed....The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"In her heart it didn't give her near the same feeling that music did. Nothing was really as good as music."

"There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick."

"You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning. Things have accumulated around your name."

"People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable."

"People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable."

"He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America."

"Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be."

"The world is certainty a sudden place."

"It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew."

"After such mornings he returned to the show with relief. It eased him to push through the crowds of people. The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves."

"It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house."

"She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town."

"Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old man leaned closer and whispered: "A tree. A rock. A cloud."

"They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?"

"You think out everything in your brain. While us rather talk from something in our hearts that has been there for a long time. That's one of them differences."

"There was none of the quiet insolence about this man."

"A person's got to fight for every single thing they get,' she said slowly. 'And I've noticed a lot of times that the farther down a kid comes in the family the better the kid really is."

"To me it is the irony of fate,” she said. “The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house."

"Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say."

"He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded."

"He could not understand the wild quiver of his heart, nor the following sense of recklessness and grace that lingered after she was gone."

"She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth."

"The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed."

"The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement."

"In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it."

"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."

"I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored."

"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things."

"Love is suffering. One side always loves more."

"Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that."

"I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not."

"Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films."

"I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more."

"I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises."

"I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved."

"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."

"You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking."

"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women."

"To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored."

"The story is more important to me than the part."

"I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian."

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often."

"Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films."

"I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day."