I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Sing a song of love with all of your passion and compassion. Let it reveal your inner beauty.

Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.