"Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path."

“Impact is more important than method.”

“Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.”

Source : "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”

“One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.”

“Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.”

“The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.”

“My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.”

Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

“Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.