And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.