I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture

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