Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Where the hell are the singing cats?

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.