My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

I do tend to overdo everything.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

I think John F. Kennedy was the last great hope. And that's why I dwell on that subject. He was someone who could stand up to the militarist element in our society.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.