There is no shame in being afraid.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

It is easy to be a Critic when you have nothing to lose by your Criticism and hard to be a whistle blower in the auditorium of the majority.

Not even generals can stop the rain.

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.