Know, O man you are a particle of the supreme feminine being sucked to an obscure vacuum - of a bliss but that we can only name - universe!

Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble!

Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!

In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?

When I die, bury me with a few garden tools, I shall make a garden in the heaven too.

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.