Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.