Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

Art without heart is craft.

every end should be followed by great new beginning

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.

[Hillary Clinton] talks about solar panels. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of money on that one.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.