Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

None of the rest of my life figures here.