If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.