We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

…I am left with lessthan one drop of my blood that does not tremble.I recognize the the signs of the old flame.

...If I were to feed strangers my information, they wouldn't have enough time to expose themselves to the world.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

For not all things are practicable on identical principles

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.