I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight.

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.