The beginning is the chiefest part of any work..

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set..

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well..

God hides things by putting them near us..

1999 was your last recorded output, and then Porter Ricks was put on hold until 2012..

Be fruitful, and multiply..

Dawn Steel was the person who told me I could never wear shoes like this! She and Nora Ephron told me 'you can't wear those crappy shoes, nobody woul….

Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath..

There are as many sorts of women as there are women..

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing..

Knowledge is not intelligence..

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like..

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for..

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on..

There's always something that draws you away from the original script..

One accumulates or one gets accumulated..

I always have something going on..

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

All right," I managed to say, just before I crumpled to the floor. "Let's see what you've got..

I'm addicted to directing!.

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be..