In life, there are no perfect affections.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

Class is classlessness.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

This world is as beautiful as your thoughts are.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.

He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.

Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.