I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.