I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions.

If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me.

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...