This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter