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

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

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.

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