“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”

“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.”

“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”

“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”

“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”

“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”

“Stardom can be a gilded slavery.”

“There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.”

“One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.”