Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.

I certainly admire people who do things.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.