I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

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 . . .

Everything physical is a creation of time

432In the end, grace may prove irresistible, but love can never be forced. Augustine knew this.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?