Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

You don't have to be in hurry in life.

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.