Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.

Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?

The worstis when people - knowingly or not -carry prison inside thems

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.