I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

I have become my own father.

I found Mick Jagger... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.