My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

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.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.

It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.