From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

To create new rules, use the power of love, courage, and kindness to break the rules.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

I'm not supposed to have chocolate before dinner.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.