It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.

I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.

Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit.

Writing is a bit like going on a diet

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.

A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.