You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Women!” he muttered. “Can't live with 'em, can't escape even by killing 'em.

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.