I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.

I'm enjoying life at my fullest. Sometimes you realize that money isn't everything.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

I would surrender my being to see you whole once more.

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.