If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

News is history shot on the wing.

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

I definitely believe in ghosts.

Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.

I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

Give in to love, or live in fear.

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.