I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that.

I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.