I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first.

A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.