Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.