As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.