You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.

There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.