Chris: I don’t know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn’t do is die. It has to be killed.
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don’t lay on complications that aren’t necessary.
Be liked and you will never want.
I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing – his sense of personal dignity.
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong – if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long.
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
That is a very good question. I don’t know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
Without alienation, there can be no politics.