You are -- your life, and nothing else.

I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.