The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.