The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

One's palate is reborn every morning!

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

An only child is never twelve.

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

To listen to a person is not passive.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.

Before all else, be armed.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.