American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

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

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.