Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.