Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

I know, ' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.

Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.