When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Don DeLillo

Once -- many, many years ago -- I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.

John Foster Dulles

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Maurice Jarre

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Patricia Highsmith

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Ben Okri

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.

Travis White

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

Don G. Mitchell

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Thomas Traherne

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

Carl Nielsen

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

William Butler Yeats