Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

. . 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.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

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