Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

When you can leave a race track and there's people in tears because they won and (people) in tears because they got crashed, you know, that's what brings us to the race track.

Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq

Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.