Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.