I can't remember what my first script was.

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.

…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.