We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it.
Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
Of course I loved books more than people.
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
How swiftly you dismiss our love...
No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.
Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.
I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.
