Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.

You like? she asked Slade. He gave her a head nod and she vanished behind the curtain.That's my sister, he said, pointing at the closed curtain.I shrugged. "I'm glad you guys are so close.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.

The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.