I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

By giving, you get, if you don't give, don't expect.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.