Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

The time to make up your mind about people is never.