If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

To find the nectar of life, let me get lost in the mysteries and beauties of the imagination.

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,

On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.