The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Our time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That’s crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.

All I wanted to be was a player.

I'm really open to anything that's good. If I read something and it's good, and I like the director, it never really needs to be a specific type of character.

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

You need to feel as good as you can before you start a workout. So what you wear to the gym is important.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect