I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Life is not only merriment, It is desire and determination.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.