Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

I knew that the pain I felt now was here to stay. In many forms. Through many nights.

Aspire higher to attain excellence in whatever you do. But be careful when you reach the peak, where the only way is the way downwards. Maintain your standard!

Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries

When they bring the drama, get silent, don't react...and watch what happens (not to you, but those who habitually thrive on your 'willing' participation).

Prayer is a condition of mind an attitude of heart which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking in sighing or in audible words.

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!