Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Your purpose is to remember your purpose

There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

Congratulations! If I may be so bold Only 40 years to go Before you're a century old Just saying

I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

The love of my life is the love between friends.