There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

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.

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.

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

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