My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

Genius is talent set on fire.

We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

It's 2006, why are they still using the index finger?

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.