Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.