I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

The landscapist lives in silence.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.