The outcome is what you put in.

Everybody's had those moments of doubt... but it's what you do with that feeling that matters.

Temporary anger is no need to make permanent mistakes.

He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

I’m sure I look a wreck. But he’s the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he’s done.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.