If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

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

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it