Yes, writing comes easy for me and it's also a painful, arduous process. I love writing. I hate writing. I never want to write again, and I want to write all day, everyday.

Writing is dreaming for me, and I can dream most anywhere.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Time is the dressing room for eternity.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

I’ll always be doing stand-up as long as people are still interested in seeing me.

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. Im too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.