The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it.

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people.

One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'