If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.