Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

nobody ever dies of an indignity.