Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.