Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

Love is not found, love finds.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

It's not enough to be against something.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done