The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence.

Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

I needed another soda. I’d only had six since breakfast.

If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?