Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.
I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.
Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
