If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.