Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

We are all regular people, Pia, ’ she laughs. ‘But we are notregular wives.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.