There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

it isn't that we're alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?

If you're saving, you're succeeding

Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

I'd just as soon freeze to death.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror