I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.

Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

If you believe it's life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not...

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

There are no atheist in foxholes.