Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Music is not take it or leave it

A sneeze can never be to far away

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.