Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is…

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach 'retirement' age seem very admirable to me.

He [Aeschylus] was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with s…

So this was adolescence. Is this how the people around me had died on their feet - inevitably, helplessly? Perhaps their own selves eclipsed the sun for so man…

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.