The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.