"The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves."

“When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.”

“Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.”

Source : Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”

“I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.”

Source : "Stage to Screens: Zosia Mamet, One of the "Girls," Is Now Really Really Starring Off-Broadway". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. February 19, 2013.

“Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.”

“If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.”

“That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.”

“Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?”

“I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.”