All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

The object of art is to give life shape.

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

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.