Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

When someone is happy and satisfied with himself and things around him, divine grace resides at his face.

This should be fun see how much we can annoy them this time.” “Annoy is such a harsh word...” Tria teased.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

I love accessories. I'm a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags.

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.