The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.