A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

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.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

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

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?