I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter.
You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.