"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."

"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."

"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."

"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors."