I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

With your life, you are writing the history of the universe.

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

I've got the whole team to try and stop so I can't worry about one player.

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!