One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

Surely joy is the condition of life.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.