What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

War makes early risers of us all.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.