“Warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less.”

“Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.”

“It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.”

“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”

“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

“I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. An actor like Al Pacino lives to act. I'm not sure though, there's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.”

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.”

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”