“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility”
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.”
“we take on the impossible and fell miserably!”
“There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second pitch-black.”
“I seem to have mastered a certain amount of control over physical reality.”