The only rule is that there are no rules.

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

The more you know, the more you can make fun of

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.

Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little.

The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

We're going to do everything we can to make sure workers are treated like assets, not costs.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.