Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.