Everyone thinks they can write a play you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

Be wary of great leaders.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect