In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget that you are human.

You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.

One of the risks that comes with not living your life with a positive purpose, is that you would become vulnerable enough to be blown around by the winds of trials and tribulations.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.