Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.