They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Time is the only critic.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can't wait to have babies.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.