In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.

God is the giver of life.

It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.