Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.
Every good work should have at least ten meanings.
I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience
I've always told people that to be successful you have to enjoy what you're doing and right now I really enjoy what I'm doing. I'm having too much fun with my life. Why would I want to do something else? Why would I want to run for governor?
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank. ' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country. ' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.