Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.