...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.