Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

The past is not what it was.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.