I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Finally, and most of all, words failed him.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.

Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.