I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.