In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Freedom is that you harness from being a slave to the one you love.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

I mainly try not to be afraid.