“Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.”

“So if he'd been a plumber, ___ _____ would've been about toilets?"Left blank to avoid spoilers but this is just too funny :)”

“In his madness he became a terrifying actor!”

“He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the while he'd been terrified every time he'd opened his mouth.”

“Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.”

“I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that.”