It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

Let your life be your message.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.