If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.