Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.

You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.