I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Be a poet in action as well as in words.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

Not all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It's part of the process.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

As a matter of fact, there is still a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. We just have to find a way to get to it.