Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

And falling's just another way to fly.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.