The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.
When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.
The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.
After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived. )
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.