One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams. ↗
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. ↗
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ↗
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. ↗
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ↗