If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Even almost a century after her death, Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress whose extraordinary personality, flamboyant life and passionate nature became a legend in her own lifetime, remains the byword among most people as the supreme theatrical star.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.