In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

In my darkness time, God splendour light shines my path.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Modeling's terrifying to a lot of people. Standing in front of a camera is terrifying. I like a challenge.

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.

Moshe Dayan, who donated his eye to CBS. Never got a dinner!

I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.