An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

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.