Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Hope sees the invisible feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

The six people you must find today... Someone to love. Someone to thank. Someone to be grateful for. Someone to forgive Someone to forget Someone to admire.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

Captive people have a need for song.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.