Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.

And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.