I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

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.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Begin to love thyself.

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.

Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.

Reaching out to rescue one another under ANY condition is an eternal measure of love.