I'm not a very skeptical person.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.