Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit.
Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.