I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.

[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.