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.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
All good art is an indiscretion.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
For time is the longest distance between two places.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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.