The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Sad company is bad company.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.