We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

Stephen Daldry

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Eckhart Tolle

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Origen

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

It is the newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Wilbur F. Storey

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Neal Barnard

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Steven Wright

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Julie Walters

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein, The Geographical

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Joseph Lancaster