It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

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.

Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

You're always allowed to be better.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.