Hard words are for fools and cowards.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.