Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.