"Love is a jeering mime."

“If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.”

“It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.”

“The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.”

“I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.”

“I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.”

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

Source : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.”

“I think if you're gonna get a tattoo, just get one: the words, 'I'm dumb.' That's it. That way in 10 years, when you go, 'Why did I get this?,' you can be like, 'Oh, I'm dumb!'”