One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

I have become my own father.

I found Mick Jagger... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

The American people abhor a vacuum.