I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.

I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.