On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.