I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

‎A change of work is the best rest..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

I don't do live things..

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times.

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an educa….

It is poetry that changes everything..

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.