Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

Because one dead leaves every material back, even the body, but what is taken is the soul with memories.

but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.