You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

We are never prepared for what we expect.