My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.