I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.