Actors are athletes of the heart.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

Actors are athletes of the heart.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.