When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

I always know the ending; that's where I start.