Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

People who were so good. There were angels.

In this world, you get what you pay for.