Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

Pleasure was the color of the time.

Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.

His art is the health of the artist.

I do want to go out on top, as a winner

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive, for the writer.

I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.