Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.

...many organizations don't realize that they have a much better option-they can tell their story directly to an interested market.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

If you're mourning, cry, scream and purge whatever is going on inside you emotionally. That's part of the process. And keep those that love you very close as you go through it.

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...