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.

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.