Pastoral Resources

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.