If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.