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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists."
"Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer."
"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
"Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd."
"My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now."
"And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two."
"I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn."
"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
"It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women."
"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done."
"I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience."
"I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better."
"The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique."
"Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction."
"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
"There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs."
"Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having."
"I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it."
"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."
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