I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

That which is imagined can never be lost.

Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.