Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Life lies between the crossroads of the Nature of the Mind and the Mind of Nature.

You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.