“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.” — W. H. Auden Quote

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

You'll never get used to the emotions that you feel. It's a mixture of fear, happiness, terror, joy, shame, embarrassment, pride - all of these together when it's the first official screening in Cannes.