Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.