You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

judge not that ye be not judged

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico