I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Only with a leafcan I talk of the forest,

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have.

I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.