One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live.

Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.

My intention is to do more films.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

Wherever you go, there’s your teacher.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book