I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families