Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

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.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.

Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.