if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

The world exists to set us free.