Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn't feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.