Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

I despise people who can't control themselves.

I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.