To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

Aveva l'animo della scrittrice pazza con tutti i suoi sbalzi d'umore, le sue insicurezze.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?