My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

I am content

I think you can go to school at any age.

the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

The angels love us. And it's their assignment. They are direct, pure emissaries for God.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.