How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.