The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.