There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them.

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come out in new shapes and forms.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

Every day the sun is rising for you.Every morning birds are singing for you. In the garden, flowers are blooming for you. Every river is flowing with life just for you.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.