It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.