I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.