For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

Madness has no sense of humour

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

I like them old and rich.

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.