If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.