Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

The worship of power is an old religion.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.