A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
