Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.

I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.