It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Saintliness is also a temptation.