ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.

A lot of people get a misconception And start drifting in the wrong direction Miss Goody Two Shoes see you later I ain't got time and you ain't nuthin but a playa hater.

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.