Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

When angry, count to Zen.

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.