When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

When we neglect knowledge, we have indirectly rejected light.

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The people have given me their support they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.