Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.