A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering other people's weaknesses.

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86 really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension which I had been seeking for a very long time is now sort of opening itself up to me.