You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Fear comes with middle age.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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.