It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

I am a good woman. I know it.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.