I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Once upon a time is now.

The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.