Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.