"Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound."
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"It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened."
"I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted."
"There is always room for the man of force."
"I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking."
"There is always room for improvements! My strength comes from above!"
"A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one."
"There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell."
"This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper."
"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."
"Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation."
"I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans."
"Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left."
"I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room."
"I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell.""
"They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'."
"Where does the dentist go when he leaves the room?"
"There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room."
"Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read."
"It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable."