The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

Novels and gardens, " she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.