Someone once told me love isn’t perfect—or predictable.

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

... Paris was a city of love for unimaginative folks.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business.

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists.

I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it.