I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.