My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

I'm the type of person who always has to be making something.

Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it’s simply your attitude.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.