My kids, that's my biggest accomplishment. Being able to have talented and smart kids. They are doing something I didn't do. I didn't finish school so...that's my biggest accomplishment.

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.

There's certain companies that line up with what the brand represents. There are other things that are more investment-focused.

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.