Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.