“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”

“I couldn't afford luxuries like embarrassment”

“And, at the risk of losing forever your so remarkably candid friendship, let me tell you something. Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford, and you are not that young any more.”

“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”

“When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.”

“Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”

“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”

“You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?”