If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

California, here I come, right back where I started from.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.