The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

I'm not particularly prolific.

You change the world by being yourself.