When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions." Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway."As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.

Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.