What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

I never fall in love.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Acting is happy agony.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.