Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.