I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

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

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

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

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.