I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!

Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

A forte always makes a foible.

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.