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

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Men want to make women happy.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

The little man is still a man.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.