It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.