"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

“My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.”

Source : "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

“I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.”

Source : "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

“It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.”

“In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.”

Source : Song: Why Walk When You Can Fly?, Album: Stones in the Road, 1994

“His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.”

“Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.”

“I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.”

“New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God”