The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.