Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.

If God wanted us to get high, he'd have created plants that became psychoactive when eaten or smoked.

I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

And if I can can, you can can.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.