Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's all music.

As I start each day I have a blank canvas. I will make every effort to fill it with color.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

Life is what it makes you.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.