My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

At my age flowers scare me.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.