There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.