As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

The day you stop learning more about yourself is the day you die.

The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.