Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

"The act of reading is an act of rebellion against the noise of the world."

"The stage is a place where the dead return."

The most personal is the most universal.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given nature, but result from the social process which creates man.