You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.

Don't panic and carry a towel

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

When you go, would you ever turn to say, "I don't love you like I did yesterday.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.