I've got a book of poetry by the bed one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world.

Save for the wild force of Nature nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

Well love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself you have no power over yourself you can't even think straight.

The British system had requirements including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless repetitive sort of learning.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation unless he has never read them.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.