Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.