He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.