Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.