In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

I simply decided that dope wasn't worth the ritual.

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

Don't be afraid to look silly.

It's just seems life without music would be death.