The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other