The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.