If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember, yielding us fainter fragrance.

I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

We do not see with our eyes, but through them.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!