I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.