All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

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

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

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

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.

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