Comedy is a tragedy that happens to other people.

The shrill cry of the newborn...like the sound of the blade of a skate on ice.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb. He acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish.

But you have no silver linings without a cloud.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

I haven’t changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.