California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain just work harder... Never give up.

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.