… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

To misuse wealth is a great fault.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

One age is like another for the soul.

You should know how to do your job.