Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

I prefer writing originals.