"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."

"Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress."

"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything."

"Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."

"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."

"The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer."

"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body."

"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."

"God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing."