There's a sense of knowing when to stop and take a break from things, to step back from the work you're making, and of changing things up to keep them interesting for yourself.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days.

Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.

If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.