"To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky."

"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."

"It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific."

"I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."