Orson Welles Life Quotations

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.