The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.

To broaden your thinking, you have to expand the scope of your mind and imagination

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.