I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

how extremely stupid not to have thought of that

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

Still, I never considered what I would do if I called for the Lord and He actually appeared before me.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

[Alec asked his agent John Burnham at William Morris if he was being shunned by Hollywood execs] 'It's not that when they think of you they hate you. They don't think of you at all.

Nobody is thinking about you the way you are thinking about you. They’re all thinking about themselves.

He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.

never occurred to me that perhaps I wasn’t responsible for everything that happened in the world.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. — HENRY FORD,

I’d never thought of myself as “one of the boys.