I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

Never judge an author by her haters.

Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.