The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

Time is meant to be converted into products.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

If you have the power to create it, you also have the power to transform it.

I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.