For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from... not to create a past for you to be stuck in.

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

she hated everything her parents loved

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

I actually wear two fragrances. It's a layered mystery.

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.