Actors were the first people to accept me.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

I have become my own father.

I found Mick Jagger... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

CUSTOMER: I’m always on night shift at work.BOOKSELLER (jokingly): Is that why you’re buying so many vampire novels?CUSTOMER (seriously): You can never be too prepared.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

I stand up for the things I believe in.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.