. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

In war, good guys always become bad guys.

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

Go by your own conscience.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.