We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Time heals all wounds.

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.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

Mister, we deal in lead.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.