The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.