“To get involved with the following loves will bring grief to your life style: musician, author and actor.”
“Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.”
“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...”
“Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...”
“To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.”
“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level”