It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.