“Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.”
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
“An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.”
“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
“You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.”
“Time is the longest distance between two places.“
“Show me a person who hasn’t known any sorrow and I’ll show you a superficial.”
“Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.”
“Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.”
“Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.The future is called “perhaps”, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”
“Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken.“
“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.”
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.“
“There is a time for departure, even when there is no certain place to go.“
“The name of a person you love is more than language.”
“It is much easier to give money than love.“
“My only point, the only point that I’m making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is all over…”
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.”
“A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.”
“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
“The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.”
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness!”
“A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.”
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. “
“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. ”
“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
“There’s a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”
“Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?”
“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”
“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.”
“You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.“
“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
“Silence about a thing just magnifies it.“
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!”
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.”
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.“
“I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.“
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
“Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.”
“It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.“
“To be free is to have achieved your life.”
“There’s no better credit-card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.”
“Death commences too early–almost before you’re half acquainted with life–you meet the other.“
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.“
“Possess your soul in patience – you will see!”
“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places.”
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
“I’ll be all right in a minute, I’m just bewildered – by life…”
“The future is called “perhaps,“ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.“
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
“I don’t believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.”
“Oh, you can’t describe someone you’re in love with!”
“People go to the movies instead of moving.”
“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”
“Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.“
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
“Never inside, I didn’t lie in my heart…”
“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”
“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.“
“Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light….”
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
