James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
— Tom Stoppard
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
