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'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 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.

I wish you a blessed beautiful Christmas with the fullness of grace.

Without our ancestors we would not be.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.