It was a dark and stormy night.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.