Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

LEXI: I’d settled for this awful existence because I’d convinced myself it was better than being alone....But it’s not.

Any point of view reflects some side of truth and must not claim that it is complete

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

The world of the dead wonʹt give you up a second time.