Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

If you cannot teach others what you have learned, then you have learned nothing.

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good.