A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~

We need to be the authors of our own life.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.