Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.