wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.

We are formed by what we desire

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.