I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.