I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

I have become my own father.

I found Mick Jagger... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

When I see that people are touched, and they feel solidarity with him, I say to myself, "I made a little change."

I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.