One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.