Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

This joy you feel is life.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.