I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with.

Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Find out where you are at, where you are going and build a plan to get there.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.