I can't exist without books.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

We don't have to always win, Sometimes we need to be deprived by others to improve ourselves.

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

True friends are trustworthy angels.

The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.