"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."

"If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal."

"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to."

"Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing."

"You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later."

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."