We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.