Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time?

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

Art is a delayed echo.

When you're a teenager with a creative mind, be as creative as possible. I'd rather you go nuts. Having more ideas is always better.

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.