The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.

You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think.

The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.